Opinion
Trump’s Tweets Prove That He Is a Raging Racist. By Charles Blow / NYT
Jon Meacham: Trump Now Tied For ‘Most Racist President In American History.’ By Ed Mazza / HuffPost
Am I an American? By Ibram X. Kendi / The Atlantic
Against Multiracial Authoritarianism. By Dan Berger / AAIHS
The Postcolonial Case for Rethinking Borders. By Tendayi Achiume / Dissent
“White Identity Politics” and white backlash: How we wound up with a racist in the White House. By Chauncey DeVega / Salon
It Can Happen Here: The U.S. Holocaust Memorial Museum’s decision to speak out against Holocaust analogies is a moral threat. By Timothy Snyder / Slate
Is Hawaii’s Racial Harmony a Myth? By Moises Velasquez-Manoff / NYT
It Was Never About Busing. By Nikole Hannah-Jones / NYT
There’s a Reason We Don’t Say ‘Integration’ Any More. By Erin Aubry Kaplan / NYT
What the Hell Is Going on With Trump and the Census, Explained. By Ryan Bort / Rolling Stone
The War to Empower Rural White Voters Is Bigger Than Trump. By Matt Ford / The New Republic
Mitch McConnell and slavery: A dark fable of America’s past — and present. By Chauncey DeVega / Salon
It’s the Cruelty, Stupid. By Charles M. Blow / NYT
The Same Myths That Thwarted Busing Are Keeping School Segregation Alive. By Sherrilyn Ifill / Slate
When ‘Black Lives Matter’ Is Invoked in the Abortion Debate. By John Eligon / NYT
I asked Latinos why they joined immigration law enforcement. Now I’m urging them to leave. David Cortez / USA Today
When racists try to poison our national symbols, we shouldn’t just surrender. By Alyssa Rosenberg / Wash Post
Trump Needs His Base to Burn With Anger. By Thomas B. Edsall / NYT
Dear Kamala Harris, here’s why Joe Biden worked with segregationists in the Senate. By Ross K. Baker / USA Today
Kamala Harris is right about busing: It worked, and should be used to end segregation today. By Amanda Marcotte / Salon
Democrats must just bring down Trump – for the sake of the world. Robert Reich / The Guardian
The deep American roots of white supremacy. By Fareed Zakaria / CNN
Joe Biden’s record on school desegregation busing, explained. By P.R. Lockhart / Vox
Frederick Douglass would be outraged at Trump’s Fourth of July self-celebration. By Colbert I. King / Wash Post
Democrats’ Cautious Return to the War on Poverty. By Osita Nwanevu / The New Yorker
Poverty Doesn’t Make You Racist. By Nathan Newman / Dissent
Trump remains dominant among white voters — Democrats can’t afford to be complacent. By Chauncey DeVega / Salon
Joe Biden’s “Jim Crow moment” was dreadful — but he may be Democrats’ best shot. By Chauncey DeVega / Salon
‘Segregationist’ barely begins to describe the racist Dixiecrats that Joe Biden worked with in the Senate. By Will Haygood / Wash Post
